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There are at least 100 things wrong with Meredith Schwarzwelder. In fact, keeping track of these things is the only way David Carew has managed to remain living with him for as long as he has. Meredith is an irredeemable eccentric who flirts with everyone in his path (#3 on the list), cries at anything (#35), makes the worst coffee in the world (#70), and talks to mice, or imagines he does (#50).

Merry Gentry, ex-private detective and full-time princess, is now the mother of triplets, a rarity in the high ranks of faerie. And not everyone is happy about it, including Taranis, King of Light and Illusion. He’s using the human courts to sue for visitation rights, claiming that one of the babies is his. To save herself and her children, Merry will use the most dangerous powers in all of faerie: a god of death, a warrior known as the Darkness, the Killing Frost, and a king of nightmares.

Like her sisters, Sage and Teal, Sky Flores has a touch of magic, and it’s caused nothing but heartache. Not only did she disappear into the woods years ago and reappear with no rational explanation, she’s also more comfortable talking to animals than to people. Different and misunderstood, Sky is shunned in the small town of Cranberry.

After Nancy was cast out of the Halls of the Dead and forced to enroll at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children, she never believed she'd find her door again, and when she did, she didn't look back. She disappeared from the school to resume her place in the Halls, never intending to return. Years have passed. A darkness has descended on the Halls, and the living statues who populate them are dying at the hands of the already dead.

Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they’ve experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the world. Now, the world is ending for real. A wandering black hole is coming for Earth and in a month everything and everyone they’ve ever known will be gone.

Alex Delmore needs a miracle. She wants out of her dead-end suburban town, but her parents are broke and NYU seems like a distant dream. Good thing there's a genie in town—and he's hiring at the Wellspring Mall. It'd help if the Jinn-formerly-of-the-Ring-of-Khorad knew even one thing about twenty-first century America. It'd help if he weren't at least as stubborn as Alex. It'd really help if her brother didn't sell her out to her conspiracy theory-loving, gnome-hating dad.

In a city where the supernatural and the mundane collide, Detective Alex Warren is no stranger to strange cases—but nothing could prepare him for the rising storm brought on by televangelist Joel Pritchard’s fervent crusade against all things otherworldly. As Pritchard’s rhetoric spreads fear and division, the line between human and supernatural becomes a battlefield. When Alex is called upon to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, he quickly realizes the case is far from ordinary.

Der Traum eines jeden Abenteurers wurde wahr, als Max, Tanila, Fowl und Batrire den Turm betraten. Noch bevor sie die erste Etage erreichen können, erfahren sie, dass der Turm sie nicht nur auf vielfältige Weise herausfordert, sondern auch, dass die Bosse, die dort auftauchen, viel schwieriger sind als die in den Dungeons. Neue Fähigkeiten, mächtige Ausrüstung und wachsende Werte warten auf sie, wenn sie die Herausforderungen meistern können. Cordellia, eine elfische Bogenschützin, hat sich ihrer Gruppe angeschlossen. Aber das Geheimnis von Max' Consume muss vor ihr geheim gehalten werden.

Hörst du auf dein Herz oder deine Magie. Die junge Gamedesign-Studentin Hailey hat ihr Leben lang gelernt, Berührungen zu vermeiden. Sie fürchtet die Visionen, die durch Körperkontakt ausgelöst werden können. In die Zukunft sehen zu können, gilt selbst in der magischen Parallelwelt als besondere Gabe, für Hailey ist es aber eher Fluch als Segen. Doch an ihrem Abschlussabend ändert sich alles: In einer Bar trifft sie auf den charismatischen Nate.

Ro Laceleaf, failed forester, is the sole member of Merseton's town watch. It's not an exciting job by any means, but after Geoffrey's disastrous necromantic experiments, the townsfolk insist it's necessary. Ro is both diligent and bored out of his skull, until one night he's called to an emergency at Mrs. Pickle's. A vampire is attacking her house.

In den eiskalten Raunächten 1929 bangen die Einwohner von Eisenhütt um ihr Überleben. Ein Wesen aus uralter Mythologie wird daher um Hilfe gebeten. Doch die sogenannte "Gehörnte" fordert dafür eine menschliche Seele. Niemand ahnt, dass das ausgewählte Mädchen damit eine große Bürde übernehmen wird. Theresia Bauer ist ein ganz besonderer Mensch. Sie ist vom "dunklen Engel" dazu auserwählt, die Waagschalen der Ewigkeit wieder ins Gleichgewicht zu bringen. Im Laufe ihres Lebens verblasst die Erinnerung an diese essenzielle Aufgabe aber immer mehr.

Everyone's always told Aspic that trouble can't help following him because of his heritage. Determined to put the lie to half-demon stereotypes, he's finally landed a good, quiet job as an herbalist's clerk where the owner trusts him to man the shop alone. What could go wrong selling coriander and thyme? When Geoffrey first enters the shop, Aspic finds the little man's eccentric appearance startling, then intriguing. Geoffrey explains, in stops and starts, that he is a theoretical necromancer researching replacements for blood magic.

Welcome to Charm Cove, Maine—where the Good are Wicked, and the Wicked are Good . . . or maybe not. Nothing is ever as it seems, at least not in Charm Cove, Maine. Moira Wicked moves away in the hopes she can escape her fate, or destiny, or something along those lines. She yearns to lead a normal life. A few years away teaches her one glaring lesson. It's incredibly difficult to be normal when your first name means destiny, your last name is Wicked, and you do come from a family legendary for its witchy ways.

Jacob Wyss is caught in a rut, in fact on the verge of being engulfed by it. After an excruciating and disillusioning divorce, his life as an artist in a sleepy college town at the foot of the Appalachian mountains has become quiet, routine, and maddening in its predictability. One wintry day, his deep restlessness drives him out in precarious conditions to a largely empty bookstore nearly devoid of another living soul, nearly. Aimee Marston isn't like everyone else.

Anastasia "Stacy" Drakethorn is a lawyer with a secret—she's the heir to a powerful supernatural dynasty. When her mother's tragic death leaves a power vacuum in the city's paranormal hierarchy, Stacy must step up and take her rightful place as leader. With enemies lurking in the shadows and her own powers awakening, Stacy must navigate a treacherous landscape of politics and magic. Guided by her trusted allies and the wisdom of her dragon father, Khan, she embarks on a journey to claim her birthright.

Bist du der Krone würdig? Prisca hat die Wahrheit über Lorian herausgefunden und ist nun gezwungen, Seite an Seite mit ihm zu kämpfen. Von seinem Verrat und seinen Lügen geplagt, konzentriert sie sich darauf, die Hybride sicher in das Reich der Fae zu bringen, während sie von König Sabiums Soldaten gejagt werden. Nur der Tod des Königs kann das Land retten und ihr Volk befreien. Auf der Suche nach Verbündeten und einem alten Artefakt der Götter, mit dem Prisca ihre volle Macht entfesseln kann, führt sie ihr Weg über das Meer zurück in das Reich, über das sie einst herrschen sollte.

Rosemary Thorn's life takes another surreal turn as she prepares to host the most unlikely event of the season, while her daughter Athena juggles exam stress and organizing the town's Imbolc ritual. Darkness is stirring in the nearby forest, and a hunger-driven force threatens to consume everything in its path. With vampire politics, fae realm adventures, and cantankerous deities in the mix, Rosemary and Athena must confront both external dangers and their own inner demons.

When the death of her aunt brings Liz Remolina back to San Ojuela, the prospect fills her with dread. The isolated desert town was the site of a harrowing childhood accident that left her clairvoyant, the companion of wraiths and ghosts. Yet it may also hold the secret to making peace with a dark family history and a complicated personal and cultural identity.

When the old man came to buy a tulip for his sick wife, something about him tugged at Agatha's heart. It wasn't until she learned the story about Hiram's plight that she knew she had to do something to make his and his wife's life better.

Greta Perks was once the shining star of the iconic Maple Gold coffee commercials, the quintessential TV wife and mom. Now, fame has faded, her marriage is on the rocks, her teenage daughter has become distant, and Greta’s once-glittering career feels like a distant memory. When Greta stumbles upon a mysterious coffee shop, serving a magical brew, she wishes for the perfect life in those past Maple Gold commercials. Next thing she knows, Greta wakes in the idyllic, make-believe town of Mapleville, where the sun always shines.